Life Is Like quotes

Life Is Like

173 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter

"I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that."

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
Life Is Like

"Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground"

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Life Is Like

"Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
Life Is Like

"Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
Life Is Like

"This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower."

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Jose Saramago Writer
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"Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Life Is Like

"Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Life Is Like

"Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning."

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